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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Sept. 1 (AP) - Theresa LePore, the official whose confusing butterfly ballot design contributed to the turmoil of the 2000 presidential election and became the butt of jokes on late-night talk shows, lost her bid for re-election Tuesday. With all 692 precincts reporting, a challenger for her post as Palm Beach County elections supervisor, Arthur Anderson, had 91,134 votes, or 52 percent, while Ms. LePore had 85,601, or 48 percent. Ms. LePore declined to meet with reporters early Wednesday, but as the polls closed Tuesday she said she was too busy overseeing the counting of ballots...

Critics Say Palm Beach County Absentee Ballot Even More Confusing Than One Used in 2000 Election The Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. Aug. 22, 2004 — Palm Beach County has introduced an absentee ballot that requires voters to indicate their choices by connecting broken arrows, sparking criticism that it is even more confusing than the infamous "butterfly ballot" used in the 2000 election. Theresa LePore, the elections supervisor who approved the 2000 butterfly ballot, opted for a ballot design for the Aug. 31 primary that asks voters to draw lines joining two ends of an arrow. Critics say the...

The problem was a flashback to Palm Beach County's infamous Election 2000: Voters failed to follow instructions. Some forgot to sign their ballots. Rejected. Others failed to get a witness' signature. Rejected. Still others had a witness but the witness didn't write down an address. Rejected. Rejected. Rejected. There was another problem, too -- fishy signatures. Workers review every signature against the voter's registration card, which can date back decades. One 97-year-old man signed his ballot with a signature that didn't look anything like the one on his registration card of 30 years ago. It was much clearer this time....

<p>MIAMI — A recent local election in Palm Beach County, Fla., revealed that all is not well with the state's voting equipment after new machines failed to record a significant number of votes cast.</p> <p>Palm Beach County is infamous for the hanging, dimpled and pregnant chads that set off the hotly disputed 2000 presidential election.</p>

Poll workers to be reprimanded for election's human goofs By Eliot Kleinberg, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Thursday, March 14, 2002 Blaming glitches in Tuesday's election not on Palm Beach County's new $14.4 million touch-screen system but on human error, Elections Supervisor Theresa LePore said Wednesday she will reprimand 14 poll workers and no longer use the services of a 15th. All failed to turn in all of their voting machines' electronic memory cards and had to go back to their precincts for them, causing delays in the counting of votes. The 15th, Boca Raton precinct clerk Joseph Greenwald, eventually...